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Nice. Yeah, we used to have "some" greys here in Iowa too, but they are rarely seen these days. I did have one on trail cam several times, as did at least one of my neighbors, about 5 to 7 years ago now. I never did see it live, nor did I ever get any info on if someone around me caught it...

Love it! Where did you get the grey?

Great! That's all I need...more equipment to plant water based food plots! :)

Bee related...I can't remember if I shared this already, or not. We are in the process of building a new house and shop and I put in a nice, large pond late last summer. (It is not yet full, as we just can't seem to get any amount of rain to fill it up, drat.) It is probably a surface acre...

Ha! Good thread topic. It has been enough years since my first foray that I am not 100% sure which one of these came first, but they are all from the "early days" AND share a theme of me being a complete noob. :) I got a bag of who knows what and just whipped it out by hand over standing...

I too shot many a deer with aluminum arrows and I still like the "feel", but I also don't miss the constant bending, however slight, of the shafts. Even a miss into hard dirt was enough to sometimes tweak an arrow, etc.

If I am understanding your situation correctly...you could either leave it and let the WW die off and fade away OR mow it high now, knocking down the WW and releasing the clover below. That WW will not be 3 or 4 foot tall this fall, you may be able to see some stalks/stems, but it will die back.

Yeah but it will take YEARS to draw that tag. :)

Already some GREAT stories here, congrats gents, keep them coming. Short, short version...I had a dream of having my own land going back over 45 years ago, when I would "use" my Study Hall period in HS to draw my dream farm. :) My real farms now look nothing like the drawings of yesteryear...

Hmmm...I was planning on drilling some new switch here soon with my PH drill. The shallowest depth setting is 1/2", how do you achieve 1/4", max, depth? I could monkey around with the draft, but feel like that would be highly variable in "real field" planting conditions.

I drilled beans on Saturday and had corn planted on Sunday. We finally got some good rains Monday and Tuesday. Am I crazy to think that I could spray pre-emergent on these fields this Friday?

I feel ya Hawk32. I bought a PH 5' last year about this time. While I could use it with my 40HP...it wasn't ideal, so I bought a 60HP and that handles it just fine. I am happy with the drill and have used it some, but still have some learning curve in front of me. I planted beans this past...

Good memory...sort of. :) Actually, I have sold the Truax and have a PH Outdoors 5' that I have used a little bit so far, but will be using it more coming right up.

Congrats! I always say that one gobble after 10:00A is a killable bird. I have shot A LOT of toms between 10:00A and noon.

Nice tractor! Congrats!! FWIW, I bought a new Workmaster 60 about a year ago now and have been happy with it. The caveat is that I haven't used it a lot yet, but so far, so good.

For real, good answer. ^^ FWIW, I intend to deepen and reshape a puny pond that I have now sometime this summer. I will use whatever "overdig" or "spoil" that I can get to refill the heads of nearby ditches, especially where such ditches are creeping out into a field, out of the timber. I...

As it relates to a formerly predominantly oak, walnut and hickory timber that was unfortunately high graded pretty badly... If one wanted to revitalize and improve the timber for future generations, what input can fellow IW's provide? I intend to whack virtually all ironwoods, a lot of the...

Just saw this, thought of this thread.

I have written several times here about this, FWIW. This subject is near and dear to me. :) We have also seen a dramatic reduction in turkey pops over the years. I would say the drop started about 15'ish years ago. I have long suspected bobcats, at least to a degree, since the decline of...

I couldn't copy the link on my phone, but there is a fixer-upper wagon/cart on the Schoeblen sp? site in Riverside, IA, for only $250. It looks like it needs tires, etc, but if you are looking to build a "cart blind"...this would be a good start IMO. It's listed on FB Marketplace.